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The summit of everest. because of the level of fatalities. and because of the issues that arose from all of this backlog that took place. the photographs, the long lines of people waiting inside the death zone. called that because of the levels of oxygen, they are so low. every breath you take in the death zone only gives youa third of the oxygen you would get at sea level so you have to be climbing with oxygen tanks and so these long, waiting hours may have contributed to the deaths that we did see at least to most of them. and a lot of the climbers aren't dying on the way up. you could make ...

An american lawyer is the late person to die on mt. everest bringing the death toll during this year's short climbing season to at least 11. bad weather has created an even more compressed window of time to get to the summit putting more climbers than usual on the mountain at one time and creating gridlock in what's called the death zone. one climber saying i cannot believe what i saw up there. death, karning a, chayios. lineups. dead bodies on the route and in the tents at camp. i tried to turn back and people

That's the ice fall that is so famous. it's what the climbers first have to go through to get to camp one, and then of course as they move on up through the different camps and the different stops, trying to reach what is the one main goal that united everybody here, and normally this entire area at the peak of the season is covered in tents. what you have right now behind me is just a few tents that have been left, their clean up crews. there's still a handful of climbers that are down there, some of the last ones to come down from the summit on what has been an especially devastating hiking ...

The photographs of the long lines of people waiting inside the death zone, called that because the levels of oxygen there are so low. every breath you take in the death zone only gives you a third of the oxygen that you would get at sea level. so you have to be climbing with oxygen tanks. so these long waiting hours may have contributed to the deaths that we did see, at least to most of them. and a lot of these climbers aren't dying on the way up. you can make it to that goal, you can make it to the summit, it's when you come back down, that's when people's bodies tend to succumb to altitude s...

Summits on seven continents by the time she's 18. she and her father were talking about how, as they were going up to the summit, they were coming across the bodies of those who have lost their lives. she was saying that, you know, while it was disturbing, yes, it also proved to be a driving force for her, to keep her going. when you're in that death zone, you are fighting for every single step you're taking. your brain is screaming at you to stop, to go back, to give up. you have to try to push through that. one of the reasons she was saying she pushed through it -- remember, she's just 17 ye...